67
Metascore
31 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 83HitfixDrew McWeenyHitfixDrew McWeenyFrequently very funny, undeniably aimed at younger audiences, and true to the source material, The Peanuts Movie is too mild-mannered to win over brand new audiences, but it's going to please people who were already fond of the underlying property, and it should be a big nostalgia-driven hit for the studio.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenThe Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenA delightful romp that captures the spirit of the adored 65-year-old comic strip.
- 75TheWrapAlonso DuraldeTheWrapAlonso DuraldeIf The Peanuts Movie never quite reaches the melancholy of earlier films like “A Boy Named Charlie Brown” and “Snoopy Come Home,” it nonetheless respects the importance of failure and disappointment that Schulz always included in his storytelling.
- 75Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreLucy (Hadley Belle Miller) is still full of nickel-a-session psychotherapy, Linus still soulful enough to recognize his friend’s heart. And Charlie’s sister Sally (Mariel Sheets) still assumes Linus is her “Sweet Baboo.”
- 75Slant MagazineKenji FujishimaSlant MagazineKenji FujishimaFailure hovers over the film as much as it did in Schulz's comic strip, infusing even its most ebullient set pieces and designs with a sense of melancholy.
- 70VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeFor those who know the strip well, The Peanuts Movie should feel like the first day of a new school year, reunited with a classroom full of familiar faces.
- 70Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlVillage VoiceAlan ScherstuhlWhat's surprising — even wondrous — is how often Schulz's precisely crooked line work informs the big-budget gloss.
- 60Screen DailyTim GriersonScreen DailyTim GriersonThe Peanuts Movie isn’t so much an homage as it is an echo and a call-back, one that certainly has heart but also feels dispiritingly riskless.
- 60New York Daily NewsKatherine PushkarNew York Daily NewsKatherine PushkarIt looks shiny enough to keep the kids engaged, but not so new and improved that it'll alienate nostalgic parents. The movie strikes that balance, adding a bell here, a whistle there.
- 58Entertainment WeeklyJoe McGovernEntertainment WeeklyJoe McGovernThe film disappointingly ditches the cartoonist’s modest visual formula for a photorealistic 3-D playground courtesy of the animation studio behind "Ice Age."